Miss Hall's Second Grade Math Class

Bitmoji Classroom

Bitmoji classrooms offer a dynamic and interactive way to encourage and foster learning by combining digital tools with engaging visual elements. These virtual environments provide a personalized and playful approach to education, allowing teachers to simulate physical classrooms in a digital space. By integrating clickable links, multimedia resources, and creative layouts, Bitmoji classrooms enable students to explore and interact with content independently, building foundational skills in digital literacy, standards-aligned math mastery, and self-directed learning.

Specifically, this Bitmoji classroom provides review, learning extension, and a check for understanding on place value. As an early childhood educator, I made careful choices regarding the color scheme and other aesthetic appeal. Too much color or visual clutter can distract students from the content as well as make it difficult for some students to navigate the site independently.

New Jersey State Standards

NJSLS: 2.NBT.A. Understanding place value

Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases:
- 100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens — called a “hundred.”
- The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0 ones).

Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.

NJSLS: 2.NBT.B. Building upon place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract

Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method.
- Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds
Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100–900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100–900.
Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations

ISTE Standards

1.1: Empowered Learner

1.1a: Learning Goals: Students set learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process to improve learning outcomes

1.6: Creative Communicator

1.6a: Choose Platforms & Tools: Students choose the appropriate platforms and digital tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
1.6b: Original & Remixed Works: Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.

Universal Design for Learning

Engagement: Welcoming Interests & Identities

7.2: Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity
7.3: Nurture joy and play

Representation: Building Knowledge

3.2: Highlight and explore patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships
3.3: Cultivate multiple ways of knowing and making meaning

Expression: Expression & Communication

5.1.: Use multiple media for communication
5.2.: Use multiple tools for construction, composition, and creativity

NJSLS Computer Science/Design Thinking

Engagement: Welcoming Interests & Identities

7.2: Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity
7.3: Nurture joy and play

Representation: Building Knowledge

3.2: Highlight and explore patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships
3.3: Cultivate multiple ways of knowing and making meaning

Expression: Expression & Communication

5.1.: Use multiple media for communication
5.2.: Use multiple tools for construction, composition, and creativity

Assistive Technology & Differentiation

Assistive Technology

Text-to-Speech Software: Add alt-text to images and links, enabling students with visual impairments or reading difficulties to navigate the classroom using screen readers.
Speech-to-Text Tools: Include tools like Voice Typing for students to interact with activities verbally.
High-Contrast Visuals: Use large, bold text and high-contrast backgrounds for easy readability.

Differentiation:

Different Pathways To Completion : Provide breaks after each part of the assignment is completed (check in, review, whole group activity) or modify the amount of work needed for full completion.
Tactile Learning: hands-on manipulatives, videos, or creative projects, allowing students to engage with place value concepts in diverse ways.